Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.3.21

House returns to voting session Feb. 3, 4, 5

Senate returns to voting session Feb. 3

TODAY 11:30: Gov. Wolf delivers a video address on his FY 2021-22 budget request and the state of the Commonwealth.  Watch Live: governor.pa.gov/live/ or facebook.com/governorwolf/  

TODAY Off the Floor: Senate Environmental Committee meets to consider letter urging IRRC to disapprove regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants.  For More/Watch Live

York Daily Record/USA Today Special Report: PA’s Polluted Susquehanna River Is Poisoning The Chesapeake Bay. What Can Be Done [Links To 12 Main Articles]

York Daily Record/USA Today: Pennsylvania Is Failing The Chesapeake Bay - Here’s How that Affects You

York Daily Record/USA Today: ‘It’s Part Of Your Being’: A Family’s Susquehanna River Life From Headwaters To The Chesapeake Bay

York Daily Record/USA Today: Susquehanna River Water Goes South From Otsego Lake - Figuratively And Literally

York Daily Record/USA Today: How Amish Farming Practices, Old Mill Dams Harm The Susquehanna & Chesapeake Bay And How To Fix It

York Daily Record/USA Today: Dammed If You Dredge, Dammed if You Don’t: Conowingo Dam’s Toxic Muck A Vexing Problem For Chesapeake Bay

York Daily Record/USA Today: Raw Sewage In The Susquehanna: PA ‘State Government Is Basically Defecating In The River’

York Daily Record/USA Today: Worst-Case Scenario For Susquehanna River & Chesapeake Bay: Climate Change, Flooding, Dead Zones, Crab Depletion

York Daily Record/USA Today: 5 Things Govt. Leaders Can Do To Save The Susquehanna River And The Chesapeake Bay

York Daily Record/USA Today: 8 Simple Things YOU Can Do To Restore The Susquehanna River And Save The Chesapeake Bay

York Daily Record/USA Today: Dammed, Drugged & Poisoned: 3 Iconic Susquehanna Species Struggle To Survive

York Daily Record/USA Today: Hell-Bent For Hellbenders: ‘The Canary In The Coal Mine’ Of The Susquehanna River Watershed

York Daily Record/USA Today: This ‘Dead Creek’ Runs Orange With Acid Mine Discharge, Poisoning The Susquehanna

York Daily Record/USA Today: The 444 Club: Boating The Entire Susquehanna River Propels Paddlers Into Another World

York Daily Record/USA Today: Fishing For Monsters ‘Out Of The Abyss’: Flathead Catfish In The Susquehanna River 

York Daily Record/USA Today: Total Maximum Daily Load: A Pollution Diet For The Chesapeake Bay

Sean Sauro: Water Quality To Benefit From Grant Received By Lancaster Farmland Trust

Call For Presentations, Award Nominations, Registration: 2021 Virtual Riparian Forest Buffer Summit March 10-11 [PaEN]

Lancaster Clean Water Partners Host Lunch & Learn Webinars On Stormwater Thru April [PaEN]

Southwestern PA Water Resource Center Hosts 2 Webinars On Green Infrastructure, Floodplain & Stormwater Management [PaEN]

PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Virtual Wild & Scenic Film Festival, On Tour March 18 [PaEN]

Sean Sauro: Salt Used to Treat Roads Often Ends Up In Soil, Waterways

PennFuture: Philadelphia Uses Part Of PennVEST Loan For Green Infrastructure Investments

Forbes: Exelon Threatens To Close 4 Nuclear Power Plants In Illinois Unless Paid A Premium For Their Zero-Carbon Electricity

WOSU: FirstEnergy Agrees Not To Seek Nuclear/Coal Bailout Subsidy In Settlement With Ohio AG

Op-Ed: Biden’s Executive Order On Oil & Gas Drilling Does Little To Protect Health In PA

Op-Ed: A Realistic Climate Agenda - Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware)

WilliamsportS Editorial: Keep Local Decisions On Use Of Farmland For Agritourism

Bay Journal: Chills Of The Good Kind Await Winter Backpacker, Without Crowds

Western PA Conservancy Protects 119 Acres, Expands Recreation In Buchanan State Forest, Bedford County [PaEN]

TribLive: Land Donation From Conservation Groups Increases Size Of North Park, Allegheny County

PA/NJ Chapter American Chestnut Foundation Posts Chestnut Week Presentations From The Virtual PA Farm Show [PaEN]

Piping Plover From Presque Isle State Park In Erie Spotted At Honeymoon Island State Park In Dunedin, Florida [PaEN]

Marcus Schneck: Bald Eagle Lays First Egg In Livestreaming York County Nest

Western PA Conservancy Hosts Feb. 19 Webinar: Finch Superflight - Tracking Winter Movements Of Evening Grosbeaks [PaEN]

Mary Ann Thomas: Bear Harvest In Western PA Slips 24%, Declines Statewide

Marcus Schneck: Bear Harvest In 2020 Was 6th Best In PA History

Marcus Schneck: Trout Stocking Schedule Reinstituted By Fish & Boat Commission

Marcus Schneck: PA Groundhog Predictions Are Split On Winter vs. Early Spring

TribLive Editorial: Punxsutawney Phil, Western PA’s Gift To Perpetual News

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Dept. Of Health Reports 143 Additional Deaths Due To COVID; 3,128 New Cases-- 2.3.21

National/International

Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley Says Coal To Exit From U.S. Power System By 2033

The Guardian: How Biden Is Reversing Trump’s Assault On The Environment

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[Posted: February 3, 2021]  PA Environment Digest